Social Value
- Purpose
UCM Education is committed to providing its services in such a way that also maximises the benefits to its local and regional communities. In order to achieve this, UCM Education will assess social value in three aspects – economic, social and environmental.
- Economic
- training and development opportunities/creation of apprenticeships, where possible
- prompt payment through the supply chains
- advertising subcontracting opportunities to a diverse supply chain
- Social
- improving the physical and mental wellbeing of local people by providing the best teachers to our local schools
- creating a diverse workforce for the delivery of services by advertising our positions in publications aimed at a diverse audience
- collaborating with the voluntary and community sectors
- monitoring labour standards through the supply chain
- improving skills and access to digital technology for all our employees and contractors
- Environmental
- water consumption management through the effort on the part of all office-based staff to conserve
- by having in place an environmental policy
- monitoring greenhouse gas emissions, where possible
- reduction in waste to landfill by recycling all possible waste materials in our offices, in line with our Environmental Policy